Archive: April 2014 -

First off, before I get into details about the book launch party, I have some news....on the night of the book launch we hit the Kickstarter goal of 4,000! Printing of the paperbacks and hardcover books is officially funded! Thank you guys so much for your support! Now we have 20 days left to hit the stretch goals so that all backers of the kickstarter receive free books and other prizes! There are some best-selling authors on there who offered their books as part of the stretch goals because they wanted to see ELECTED succeed. It's awesome of them, and I hope you guys get to receive...

ELECTED released today on AMAZON in ebook version and KICKSTARTER for the hardcover and printed copies, and I am absolutely floored by the response. I promised I would keep you all up-to-date on how the book is doing and give you the ins and outs of publishing as I went through it.
So far: on AMAZON the book is ranking really well. I can't see the sales yet because those have a few day delay, but by the ranking of 20K (which moved from 1,000,000 when the book first released) I can tell that sales are good. The goal for today is to get ELECTED into the top 100, so we still have time!!!...

The following is a guest post by Author Samantha Grey. Her book, Unveiling You, will be out very soon, and it's all about secrets. In that theme, she's here today on my blog, telling us five secrets about herself.
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In my latest book, Unveiling You, my character Amy has a secret. It could risk her whole internship. When she starts to fall for her boss' grandson, she knows she'll have to keep him a secret, too. But does she want to?
We all have secrets. Here are five of mine.
1. Samantha Grey
You're special -- you know this name, Samantha...

I'm happy to help reveal the new cover of Ana Blaze's contemporary romance, A LATE THAW. The book was originally published in 2013 through our mutual former-publisher. However, Entranced's closure allowed Ana the opportunity to rebrand and re-publish the book through a different means. Thus, this is an entirely new cover, and I'm honored she asked me to help her show it off.
RELEASE DATE: April 2014
GOODREADS BOOK LINK: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17830852-a-late-thaw
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Here's the run down on how people will be able to get the ELECTED book and all the cool things going on with publishing in the last couple of weeks.
1) A kickstarter will run April 15th through the end of May. There you'll be able to get a signed paperback or hardcover, and each of those purchases comes with a free digital copy of ELECTED. The kickstarter is a way to pre-order printed copies and ones that are signed. There won't be any other place to get the hardcover for a very long time, esp one that's signed. Plus…at the different kickstarter backer levels, people can get cool...

I'm happy to have Barbara Garren on the website again. I helped get the word out about her novel when it was released a few months ago. Now she's back on this site to give us some writing tips. I really like Barbara's bravery in giving this tip and taking it herself. When I first started sending my novels out to agents, I heard a similar tip -- that authors should be like roasted marshmallows. Soft on the inside to be able to write from the heart but crispy and hard on the outside to be able to take criticism, no matter how painful.
So here we have 10 interview questions/answers...